Nintendo Power Cards

[Dark_Sol]

I'm not from USA and recently found out that NP had special trading card sheets attached with some of their issues. So now i wonder how many of these cards exists? Anyone have a big collection?

[boatofcar]

I'm not from USA and recently found out that NP had special trading card sheets attached with some of their issues. So now i wonder how many of these cards exists? Anyone have a big collection?

I had a big collection of them at one time--there was some kind of contest where you could win a game or something if you matched three. I never won though

[Blitzwing256]

nintendo released them as a set in the power catalogue once, I stupidly never ordered em. but they were the one thing i was looking forward to in each issue of the magazine.


you got 6 cards per issue for about 2 years that ranged from nes to gb to snes. each card had 3 challenges you could do in the game (stuff like beating ff1 with just white mages etc etc)

I miss that kind of promotion.

the early issues of sega visions also had cards but they weren't random they were preset in each issue.

[Aussie2B]

Later on they did have some preset cards for a few issues, usually when a really big game was coming out. Just to name a few, there were cards for Donkey Kong Country 2, Super Mario RPG, Star Fox 64, and Mario Kart 64.

[Blitzwing256]

megaman x2 was another and killer instinct.

[digitpress Jim]

I have a sucky story... When I was younger and started collecting hardcore, I hit the mother load of old school Nintendo Power Issues at a thirft store and they all contained the Trading Cards, like an idiot, I tore them all out and put them in a binder. This might not seem like a big deal, I know it didn't to me at the time, but as I got older I'm like shit, I wish I would have kept those cards in tac for collecter reasons. Oh well, they are bad ass cards and I love looking at them. Have a good one guys and gals.


Digitpress Jim

[Dark_Sol]

BTW if anyone interested in selling some card collection please PM me. I'm interested. They sell very cheap on ebay but hell. Maybe we can work something out

[ryborg]

I remember those cards were a massive pain in the ass to tear apart without mangling the cards. That, or my impatient pre-teen fingers didn't properly know how to handle a Star Fox rookie card.

[Snapple]

I have a sucky story... When I was younger and started collecting hardcore, I hit the mother load of old school Nintendo Power Issues at a thirft store and they all contained the Trading Cards, like an idiot, I tore them all out and put them in a binder. This might not seem like a big deal, I know it didn't to me at the time, but as I got older I'm like shit, I wish I would have kept those cards in tac for collecter reasons. Oh well, they are bad ass cards and I love looking at them. Have a good one guys and gals.

Man, kids shouldn't be worrying about leaving collector cards attached together. Those cards are never going to be worth much anyway, so enjoy them like cards are supposed to be enjoyed. You did the right thing, so don't beat yourself up over it.

I also have a bunch of these cards in a small binder, and they're pretty cool.

[Blitzwing256]

i have about 100 or so of em in a binder myself including some RARE ones ;-) what was funny is I "won" the contest for a free game several times, but I didn't want to send my cards in so I just didn't bother ;-)

what was nice is two of my friends got np at the time and when they discovered booze and skanks they gave me all thier old magazines with the cards still inside :-) I'm pretty close to a full set if i went through those issues.

[Dark_Sol]

I saw a ebay lot containing 149 cards. It was sold for 6$. So i guess 100 is far from complete

[Blitzwing256]

hee hee, I have 100ish in the binder and 2 sets of two years worth of the cards still in the magainzes, i'm sure i'm still missing a bunch though.

what made it more dificult is most of the popular games like zelda and mario had more then one card for em (with differnt challenges no less)